[Haskell] Jane Street is hiring functional programmers

Yaron Minsky yminsky at janestreet.com
Sat May 22 07:49:26 EDT 2010


I would like to announce that Jane Street, a proprietary trading company
with offices in New York, London and (soon) Hong Kong is actively
looking to hire talented functional programmers.  Although our primary
development language is OCaml, we're very interested in hiring people
with experience in related languages, including Haskell.

We're looking for people who have a deep interest in and understanding
of software and technology.  We're not looking for experience with
financial markets --- that's something we believe we can teach people on
the job.  

Jane Street is deeply committed to functional programming, having the
largest team of OCaml programmers in any industrial setting, and
probably the world's largest OCaml codebase.  We use OCaml for running
our entire business, supporting everything from research to systems
administration to trading systems.  If you're interested in seeing how
functional programming plays out in the real world, there's no better
place than here.

The atmosphere is informal and intellectual.  There is a focus on
education, and people get a chance to learn both about software and
about trading.  The work is challenging, and you get to see the
practical impact of your efforts in quick and dramatic terms.  Jane
Street is also a small enough place that people have the freedom to
get involved in many different areas of the business.  Compensation is
highly competitive, with a great deal of room for growth.

If you'd like to learn more, here are some links.  You can get an
overview of the firm from our website:

   http://janestreet.com

There's a talk I gave at CMU a while back that gives a good overview of
what Jane Street does and why we use a statically typed functional
language.

   http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/61

We also have a programming blog:

  http://ocaml.janestreet.com

There are also a couple of papers we've written about our experiences
here using functional languages.

   http://www.janestreet.com/technology/articles.php

If you're interested, send me a resume and cover letter.

-- 
Yaron Minsky


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